The Porteus Community is pleased to announce Porteus 3.0 RC1 (Standard Desktop Edition), as well as Porteus Kiosk Edition v3.0 rc1 in time for Christmas! This release sees a move to a slackware 14.1 base and a new Porteus Kiosk Web Wizard. We've also put together prepackaged modules for Google-Chrome, Opera, Libreoffice, Abiword, and printing/scanning software, which can be dropped in place to get out-of-the-box functionality! Please note that the "Development" module will now need to be downloaded as a standalone module if you wish to compile additional software in Porteus.

You can download the ISO and other files for the desktop edition here: 32bit and 64bit
You can customize the kiosk ISO using the kiosk wizard here: build it now

- Upgraded to linux-3.12.4
- Porteus-installer-for-Linux: fixed installation on MMC cards and when udisks2 helper mounts the media under the /run directory

cheatcodes:
- Added 'changes-ro' cheatcode which keeps saved changes in a frozen state. This is handy if you have set your system 'how you like' and do not want to make other modifications to it.
- Added 'utc' cheatcode which tell Porteus that the hardware clock is set to UTC time and not to localtime.
- Tweaked 'kmap=' cheatcode so now its possible to use keyboard layout variants. Cheatcode syntax is: 'kamp=$layout:$variant', example: 'kmap=pl:qwertz'. Old syntax: 'kmap=pl,us' or 'kmap=pl' is still valid

kernel config:
- Added squashfs multi-threaded decompression patch (backported from linux-3.13) which should make Porteus even faster on multi CPU machines
- Added support for ACL and Security Labels to all filesystems which supports these features
- Compiled many drivers directly into kernel as there is no point for loading them by udev if they will be used anyway during live session

001-core.xzm:
- Removed guest from plugdev group to fix udisks2 issues with unauthorized mounting
- Updated txz2xzm, deb2xzm and rpm2xzm scripts to support converting of multiple packages. Example: 'txz2xzm /path/some_folder/*' will convert all packages from that folder in one run
- Fixed saving to .dat container when it is placed on ntfs partition
- Fixed 'changes=EXIT:' not saving the session with full paths
- Added empty and non executable by default /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown script for users who need to do custom actions before Porteus goes down
- Reenabled lcd brightness control in laptop-mode-tools config
- Fixed broken pns/xpns tools and added possibility for setting netmask to the pns-tool
- Added check to the booting and activate/deactivate scripts for 32bit caches which needs to be updated in x86_64 multilib environment
- Updated 'psinfo' and 'xpsinfo' utilities which now provides more information about the PC Porteus is booted on
- Tweaked activate scripts so restarting of the panel in not needed anymore
- Recompiled ntfs-3g to add extra ntfsprogs utilities not included in Slackware by default
- Added iproute2 and pcmciautils packages along with other Slackware-14.1 dependencies

002-xorg.xzm:
- Updated 'watch-xorg' script which should help us getting into GUI in every case
- Updated context menu scripts to display notification rather than confirmation window
- Upgraded opensource 2D and 3D drivers to their latest versions (OpenGL-3.x compatibility for certain GPUs)
- Added ffmpeg with all required deps and opus-tools so Asunder can rip audio CDs to the opus files directly
- Updated gtk tools: gtk-porteus-timeconfig, gtk-soundcard-select, gtk-xkb-select, PPM and updater are disabled for rc's.

06-libreoffice.xzm:
Bumped to version: 4.1.4 (64bit version has 4.1.3)

07-printing.xzm:
- Rebuilt based on Slackware 14.1 and recompiled non-standard slack packages from source
- Fixed a bug that resulted in a missing print test page for hplip

08-skype.xzm:

Drivers:
- Upgraded to latest available versions and dropped catalyst-legacy as it does not compile against recent kernel/Xorg anymore
- Added 32bit opengl to 64bit nVidia proprietary drivers

Kiosk Edition:
- Main ISO is based on Slackware-14.1
- Dialog wizard has been replaced with more user friendly web version
- Added support for setting time zones
- Added support for setting password and view only/interactive modes to vnc module
- Added support for setting custom ssh port, hostname and netmask

Last edited by fanthom on 24 Dec 2013, 03:36, edited 9 times in total.
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